Risto Kirjazovski

After the defeat of the Democratic Army, Kirjazovski left for the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, where in 1958 he achieved a university degree. For several years he worked as a teacher in Skopje and Resen, and from 1962-1974 he was an employee in the Archives of Macedonia. After that he worked in the Institute of National History as a higher scientific cooperator. In 1978 he was elected the rank scientific councilor. In 1982 he obtained his academic degree Doctor of Sciences.

Before his 16th birthday, Kirjazovski became a participant in the national liberation war of Greece. In February 1943 as a voluntary he entered the ranks of ELAS (Greek National Liberation Army), and after the Varkiza agreement for the disarming of ELAS, he enrolled in the ethnic Macedonian organization NOF (National Liberation Front of the Aegean Macedonians). He took part in the first armed battles between NOF and right-wing Greek militias, and after 1946, when the NOF united with the DSE (Democratic Army of Greece), he became a fighter in the DSE and took part in important battles in the Greek Civil War.

He was a partisan from 1943 until September 1949, when the DSE was defeated and retreated to Albania.

Risto Kirjazovski (Macedonian: Ристо Кирјазовски (6 January 1927 – 3 October 2002) was a Macedonian historian, scientist and publisher. He fought as a Partisan in the NOF, and also participated in the Greek Civil War. After 1949 he fled from Macedonia, Greece to SR Macedonia in Yugoslavia and worked on scientific research in the Archives of Macedonia and the Institute for National History in Skopje.

Kirjazovski was born on 6 January 1927 in the Kastorian village Grache (Ftelia), Greece. He finished his primary education in his native village, just before the beginning of the Second World War.

The research of Kirjazovski was focused mainly on the recent history of Aegean Macedonia (1912–1949), but he also had publications referencing happenings from the end of the 19th century.